AD patients have defects in phagocytosis of amyloid - β (1 - 42)(Aβ) in vitro by the innate immune cells, monocyte / macrophages and in clearance of Aβ plaques [5]. (content.iospress.com)
Even more notable, Loki has genes that code for proteins involved in phagocytosis, the process by which one cell can swallow another — and widely believed to be the way eukaryotes acquired mitochondria, a cell's power source. (discovermagazine.com)
Within 10 minutes of the bacteria reaching the lungs, the neutrophils started to crawl toward the bacteria and gobble them up, a process called phagocytosis. (sciencenews.org)